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| January 9 |
Ms. Leilani Robertson
Ph.D. Student
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"QTL mapping for Fusarium ear rot and fumonism contamination
resistance in two populations of maize."
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| January 16 |
Martin Luther King
Day
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| January 23 |
Dr.
Steven Koenning
Research Assistant Professor
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Asiatic Soybean Rust: Current status and prospects
for management."
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| January 30 |
Dr.
James Stack
Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
Kansas State University
"Agricultural biosecurity: Emerging national
infrastructure."
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| February 6 |
Dr.
Sophien Kamoun
Associate Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
The Ohio State University
"Reprogramming the Host: The Effector Secretome of Phytophthora."
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| February 13 |
Dr.
Jean Ristaino
Professor
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Tracking the evolutionary history of
the potato famine pathogen (Phytopthora infestans) with historical
collections."
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| February 20 |
Dr.
Peter Balint-Kurti
USDA Assistant Professor
USDA-ARS Plant Sciences Research Unit
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Analysis of quantitative disease resistance in
Maize."
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| February 27 |
Dr.
Greg Upchurch,
USDA Assoc. Professor
USDA-ARS
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Control of C18 fatty acid content and pathogen
susceptibility of soybean seed."
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| March 6 |
Spring Break
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| March 13 |
Dr.
Richard Bostock
Professor
Department of Plant Pathology
University of California, Davis
"Perspectives on systemic signaling in disease resistance
and susceptibility...and a few other odds and ends."
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| March 20 |
Dr.
Xinnian Dong,
Associate Professor,
Department of Biology
Duke University
"Signal transduction in plant immune response."
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| March 27 |
Dr.
Zvezdana Pesic-Van Esbroeck,
Director, Micropropagation Unit
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Disease Management in Vegetatively Propogated Crops."
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| April 3 |
Dr.
Gerald Holmes
Associate Professor
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"The Cucumber Downy Mildew Epidemic of 2004:
crisis management through extension, teaching and research."
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| April 10 |
Dr.
Bill Dolezal
Research Fellow
Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc.
"Breeding
for disease resistance in maize; a commercial perspective."
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| April 17 |
Dr.
Charles Opperman
Professor
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Genes and genomes: Nematodes
as parasites and as hosts."
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| April 24 |
Dr.
Neal Gutterson
President and Operating Officer
Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.
"Transcription factors that regulate disease resistance
pathways, and engineering disease resistance with them."
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| May 1 |
Dr.
Gary Payne
William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Plant Pathology
"Aspergillus flavus and aflatoxin conamination:
Does genomics fit the mold?"
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| May 8 |
Dr.
Turner Sutton ,
Professor and Extension Leader
Dept. of Plant Pathology
"Evolution of a disease management program for winegrapes
in North Carolina."
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May 17
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Rosie
Perez Memorial Seminar
Dr. Timothy R. Gottwald
Research Leader and Plant Pathologist
USDA-ARS US Horticultural Laboratory
Fort Pierce, Florida
"Battling Hurricanes, Dragons, and Disease: The chronicles
of the citrus canker wars and the uprising of Huanglongbing."
3 pm at the JC Raulston Arboretum
(Reception
following and to include recognition of
2006 Nusbaum Scholars)
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